Micromanagers of gene expression: The potentially widespread influence of metazoan microRNAs

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 396-400

  Bartel, David P ^a,b   Chen, Chang Zheng ^a  

^a WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA SEQUENCE; SPLICEOSOME; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; METAZOA;

EID: 1942435249     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg1328     Document Type: Review

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